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Presidential Politics: The Race Is On, the Stakes Are High |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE PRESIDENCY |
| Author: Stephen J. Wayne |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 4,555 Words, 28,151 Characters |
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There have been significant changes in the way we choose our presidential nominees. In the past, entering primaries was optional for leading candidates and required only for those who did not enjoy party support or national recognition. Today it is essential for everyone, even an incumbent president. No longer can a front-runner safely sit on the sidelines and wait for the call. The winds of a draft may be hard to resist, but more often than not, it is the candidate who is manning the bellows.
In the past, candidates carefully chose the primaries they would enter and concentrated their efforts where they thought they would run best. Today they have much less discretion. Before 1972 it was considered wise to wait for an opportune moment in the spring of the presidential election year ...
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...re they dependent on him for their nomination and election. The increasing independence of institutions from one another decreases the political incentives to follow the president's lead.
At some point a president may discover that he and his staff are all alone, and this is not a reassuring feeling in a system whose very success requires the building and rebuilding of issue majorities.
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